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I don’t know if that’s what they meant, but what you’re saying is interesting. I would soften the idea a little bit by noting that as a little human grows up a
by epgui 4y ago
I don’t know if that’s what they meant, but what you’re saying is interesting.
I would soften the idea a little bit by noting that as a little human grows up and learns more things, its brain plasticity goes down over time. AFAIK there’s no evidence that learning “saturates” the ability to learn other things, and the loss of plasticity is probably mainly linked to aging and/or other factors, but functionally the effect is very much the same: humans that know a lot of things typically have less capacity for learning.
- deltaonefour 4y agoAnterograde amnesia is a condition where a human has lost his/her ability form new memories, aka learn. They can't remember anything past 3 minutes*. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeiMhUlipTk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeiMhUlipTk These people are clearly still sentient. There is still some form of memory there but the overall mechanism is largely gone.